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Welcome to our Webcast Symposium on Avian Influenza. Prevention of avian influenza is of paramount importance to both public health and animal health sectors. Partnership between the two sectors is a critical success factor for mitigating risk and communicating prevention strategies, particularly with respect to public health impact, on farm biosecurity, worker health protection and food safety. Today, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has arranged for four scientists to address these issues, particularly for state health department and poultry industry representatives.

In January 2004, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the H5N1 subtype was first confirmed in poultry and humans in Thailand. Control measures, e.g., culling poultry flocks, restricting poultry movement, and improving hygiene, were imple...

A real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was developed to rapidly detect the severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). The assay, based on multiple primer and probe sets located in differen...

Samples of drinking water from poultry cages, which can be collected conveniently and noninvasively, provide higher rates of influenza (H9N2) virus isolation than do samples of fecal droppings. Studies to confirm the usefulness of poultry drinking wa...